The Goods, But No Delivery
AM all for parochialism in my morning talks, since I like to feel I am getting from the talk something I couldn’t get from the Readers’ Digest or the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Thus I was pre-disposed to enjoy Mrs, Wood’s series of talks on Early New Zealand Education, a field scarcely scratched by previous talkers, and one full of interest to listeners who like myself had been ‘offered at school only the political and military history of the colony. And my interest waxed as Mrs. Wood got nearer and nearer to her final talk on girls’ colleges in Auckland and Wellington. Mrs. Wood is an excellent historian, and her respect for facts is blended with a lively sense of the amusing (though her anxiety that we should take with due, seriousness the struggle of our ancestresses towards better female education kept her from excessive frivolity). In view of the quality of the talks it was all the more regrettable that her delivery should have been so rapid and her voice so soft that listeners found some difficulty in keeping up.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 9
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184The Goods, But No Delivery New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 9
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